The 2026 listing of leading Employer-focused New York City Employment Lawyers details attorneys practising within the areas of employment and industrial relations matters across the greater New York city legal market whose practice has a strong employer representation focus and who have been identified by the city’s employment lawyers for their expertise and abilities in these areas.
Preeminent
Michael Bernstein, Bond, Schoeneck & King
Mark Brossman, McDermott Will & Schulte
Michael Delikat, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Louis DiLorenzo, Bond, Schoeneck & King
Ronald Green, Epstein Becker & Green
Paul Salvatore, Proskauer Rose
Leading
Lorie Almon, Seyfarth Shaw
Marshall Babson, Seyfarth Shaw
Allan Bloom, Proskauer Rose
Elise Bloom, Proskauer Rose
Frederick Braid, Holland & Knight
Erika Collins, Faegre Drinker
Michael Collins, Bond, Schoeneck & King
Michael Curley, Duane Morris
Donald Dowling, Littler Mendelson
Gary Friedman, Seyfarth Shaw
David Garland, Epstein Becker & Green
Todd Girshon, Greenberg Traurig
Keisha-Ann Gray, Proskauer Rose
Keith Gutstein, Kaufman Dolowich
Jessica Kastin, Jones Day
Jeffrey Klein, Clarick Gueron Reisbaum
Matthew Lampe, Jones Day
Kevin Lauri, Jackson Lewis
Kevin Leblang, HSF Kramer
David McManus, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Theodore Rogers Jr., Sullivan & Cromwell
Jill Rosenberg, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Laura Sack, Davis Wright Tremaine
Samuel Shaulson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Patrick Shea, Paul Hastings
Amy Traub, BakerHostetler
Kenneth Turnbull, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Recommended
Neil Abramson, Proskauer Rose
Mitra Anoushiravani, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Michael Arnold, Mintz
David Baron, Seward & Kissel
John Barry, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Ned Bassen, Dentons
Philip Berkowitz, Littler Mendelson
Marc Bernstein, Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch
Lincoln Bisbee, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Richard Block, Barton
Mitchell Boyarsky, Nelson Mullins
Wendy Butler, Jones Day
Damian Cavaleri, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney
Terri Chase, Jones Day
Sharon Cohen, Davis+Gilbert
Patrick Collins, Ogletree Deakins
Michael DeLarco, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Laurent Drogin, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin
Paul Evans, Paul Hastings
Daniel Feinstein, Davis+Gilbert
David Feldman, Ogletree Deakins
Shira Franco, Davis+Gilbert
Kenneth Gage, Paul Hastings
Brian Gershengorn, Fisher Phillips
Evandro Gigante, Proskauer Rose
Gregg Gilman, Davis+Gilbert
Jerrold Goldberg, Greenberg Traurig
Carol Goodman, Herrick Feinstein
Jyotin Hamid, Debevoise & Plimpton
Gerald Hathaway, Pierson Ferdinand
Tracy Richelle High, Sullivan & Cromwell
John HCozen O’Connor
Barbara Hoey, Kelley Drye & Warren
Robert Holtzman, HSF Kramer
Anne Villanueva Jeffers, Skadden, Arps
Eliza Kaiser, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Brian Kaplan, DLA Piper
Garrett Kennedy, DLA Piper
Kenneth Kirschner, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Douglas Klein, Jackson Lewis
Eve Klein, Duane Morris
Alan Klinger, Steptoe
Jeffrey Kohn, O’Melveny & Myers
Dina Kolker, Steptoe
Mark Konkel, Kelley Drye & Warren
Mark Lerner, Mintz
Blythe Lovinger, Kelley Drye & Warren
Stephen Macri, Ogletree Deakins
Marc Mandelman, Epstein Becker & Green
Michael Marra, Fisher Phillips
Jeffery Meyer, Kaufman Dolowich
William Milani, Epstein Becker & Green
Danielle Moss, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Harris Mufson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Gerard O’Shea, Cooley
Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager, Sullivan & Cromwell
Nicholas Pappas, Dorsey & Whitney
Christopher Parlo, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Evan Parness, Covington & Burling
Emily Pidot, Paul Hastings
Richard Rabin, Akin
Ronald Richman, McDermott Will & Schulte
Carolyn Richmond, Fox Rothschild
Blair Robinson, Paul Hastings
Philip Rosen, Jackson Lewis
Jessica Taub Rosenberg, Akin
Paul Rosenberg, BakerHostetler
Jake Rubinstein, Cozen O’Connor
David Schwartz, Skadden, Arps
Jonathan Shapiro, Littler Mendelson
Susan Gross Sholinsky, Epstein Becker & Green
Ivan Smith, Kaufman Dolowich
Howard Sokol, Holland & Knight
Wendy Stryker, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Jonathan Sulds, Greenberg Traurig
Steven Swirsky, Epstein Becker & Green
Marina Tsatalis, Wilson Sonsini
Gena Usenheimer, Seyfarth Shaw
Liza Velazquez, Paul, Weiss
Howard Wexler, Seyfarth Shaw
Lyle Zuckerman, Davis Wright Tremaine